The Current23:29Carmakers ditching AM radio
When Alan Cross turned six years old, his grandmother gave him a transistor radio. The gadget may have seemed insignificant then, but by tapping into AM radio, it opened the world up to the young Cross, who went on to become a radio broadcaster.
“Growing up in a little town outside of Winnipeg, I suddenly realized that there was more to the world than what was coming out of the radio in the dashboard of my dad’s car and on the kitchen table,” he told The Current’s Matt Galloway.
Cross was not the first or last person to
